by Bob | Mar 8, 2008 | Black Church History, Women, Women's History, Women's Ministry, Women's Studies, Womens' Soul Care
An Amazing Sister in an Amazing FamilyMacrina the Younger (327-379 AD) came from one of the most amazing families in all of Church history. Her paternal grandmother was Macrina the Elder, her mother was Emmelia, and her brothers were Peter, Basil and Gregory of Nyssa....
by Bob | Feb 18, 2007 | Women, Womens' Soul Care
The Voice of the Martyrs, Part 2Rewinding the Tape (Review from Part 1)Vibia Perpetua lived in Carthage in North Africa during the persecution of Christians under Septimius Severus. At the time of her arrest in 202 AD, she was a twenty-year-old mother of an infant...
by Bob | Feb 17, 2007 | Church Mothers, Perpetua, Women
The Voice of the Martyrs, Part 1When we think of early Church history, our minds naturally turn to the Church Fathers. Sadly, we normally fail to even consider the Church Mothers. Yet, these godly women heroically waged spiritual warfare against the world, the flesh,...
